I had my hard drive replaced on my iMac operating Snow Leopard 10.6 Now I cannot find my VMs I found one hdd from last year and I found pvs files which have the names of my my VMs I cannot load Windows to my Parallels 5. Error 7 It just freeze> I have tried Parallels support in Sydney but they have not helped. Can someone help me through this please? Henry
What happened to the old hard drive? Where did the files on the new hard drive come from? How did they get there? You probably need to reinstall Parallels. Are the .pvs files named after your VM's or do they contain the names of your VMs? Usually the .pvs file is named "config.pvs" and inside it (you can view it in a text editor) it will have a VmName. What is the path of the .pvs file? Usually the .pvs file is inside the virtual machine folder which has the name of the VM with a .pvm extension. Can you open the .pvs in a text editor and tell what the AppVersion of Parallels that created it?
My mistake I have .pvm files. Apple took the old disc away. Time Machine was backing up Parallels I have one .hdd file Henry
Virtual machines usually store .hdd files inside the .pvm. Right click the .pvm in the Finder and select "Show Package Contents".
Run the following command and post the results here inside [code] and [/code] to preserve spacing: Code: cd /ThePathToThePVM ls -ld *.pvm; ls -lRA *.pvm You can right click an .hdd and select "Open With Parallels Mounter" to mount the virtual hard disk in the Finder and then examine the contents. You can do the same with a .pvm in which case all the virtual hard disks belonging to the .pvm will be mounted.
